In the end, trauma isn’t proof that you’re broken.Instead, it’s our species’ primordial intelligence, frozen in time. But ...

First and foremost, we breathe in order to absorb oxygen—but this vital rhythm could also have other functions. Over the past ...

This important work significantly advances our understanding of the role of human hippocampal theta oscillations in memory encoding and retrieval. The evidence supporting the conclusions is solid, ...

Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that helps explain why growing up in a stimulating environment enhances ...

New research shows that childhood environments shape lifelong memory through a single molecular switch that controls learning-related gene activity.

Some experiences imprint themselves so deeply that they feel as vivid decades later as the day they happened, while others ...

Studies in developmental psychology and neuroscience support this. Research has found that when encoding opinions compared to ...

A structure deep in the brain, the hippocampus, plays a central role in forming new episodic memories (events and experiences ...

We often fail at the simplest tasks. It’s not stupidity, it’s because your brain is ancient, but your behavior is not. Neuroscience explains how to overcome biological fallibility.

The phone rang at 11:10 pm. I tried to ignore it. I was tired and hoped the call wasn’t from a distraught therapy client. But the voice rising from my answering machine was Kathy, one of the ...